The Closet, Before

The Closet, Before

After moving almost every year for the past three years, I loved the idea of moving somewhere more permanent—and I was moving in with my longtime boyfriend. I had been living in my very cute—but very small—studio, so I was definitely looking forward to some more space. The moment I saw the walk-in closet in our new apartment I was sold. The rest of the apartment didn’t even need to exist.

Although the closet had great space the layout was awful, a complete waste of Manhattan closet real state. But, I knew all that could be fixed—I would just have to start from scratch.

There was one company that could help me realize my closet vision: California Closets. As Ginny Snook Scott, California Closets’ Chief design officer’s says, “Just because you have a traditional closet with one rod and a shelf doesn’t mean you have to live with it.” For over 30 years California Closets has been helping to fulfill their customers design and organizational needs and since I consider myself the queen of organization I knew this would be a perfect partnership.

First things first, they sent over an amazing design consultant, Cara Carrasco, to my apartment to assess my closet needs. We discussed all my closet desires and she measured my closet. Within 45 minutes she entered it all into her computer and was able to show me a simulated image of my future closet. I was more than impressed, this was amazing. Less than a month later, my dream closet was built.

Pictured: This was my closet before—a complete waste of space! I was using the shortest side of the closet for hanging and not using the right or left hand side of the wall at all.